Word: bogot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even overseas. Math students at Harvard have free access-via telephone-to a unique computer at the University of California's Santa Barbara campus. Kenyon, Oberlin and the ten other schools of the Great Lakes Association together sponsor international study centers for their students in Beirut, Tokyo, Bogotá; and Guanajuato, Mexico...
...longtime Liberal leader (and distant cousin of Lleras Restrepo) who served ably from 1958 to 1962 as the front's first President, then retired to Manhattan and a job as editorial chairman of Visión, Latin America's leading Spanish-language newsmagazine. Going back to Bogotá last August, Lleras set out to glue the front together by main force of personality and prestige. He urged all Colombians "to bind ourselves in a great movement to awaken the national conscience." In the political back rooms and in talks with the country's landowning upper class, Lleras...
...year) in the U.S., the paper is aimed primarily at the U.S. business community; most of its 4,000 subscribers are businessmen in the U.S. with interests in Latin America. Latin American subscription prices range from a forbidding $100 for air-freight delivery in Buenos Aires to $75 in Bogot...
Died. Efrain González, 29, Colombian bandit chieftain, one of the Andean country's most wanted men and leader of a gang credited with close to 250 murders in the past six years; by gunfire, in an attack on his suburban Bogotá hideout by 425 soldiers using tear gas, rifles, machine guns and a 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun, while thousands of civilians looked...
...intense and obstinate propaganda campaign to destroy the country's institutions," said Lleras Restrepo. And sure enough, its institutions were growing shakier by the day. Toward week's end, university students protesting U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic went on a seven-hour rampage in Bogotá, slinging stones and Molotov cocktails, breaking windows in a U.S.-Colombian cultural center, and taking over two radio stations. When police finally restored order, more than 100 people were injured. Valencia promptly seized upon the riot as an excuse to declare a state of siege...